After two months of special training in the new rifle in Belgium, the Grand Duke's Hessian regiment formed a combat force and joined the Satsuma regiment, a total of 2,400 people, and confronted the Prussian 14,000 people. Saigo Takamori was the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces of the two regiments, and he adjusted from a completely defensive posture to an opportunistic and aggressive posture, and a major battle could occur at any time.

Moltke, the chief of the General Staff of the Prussian army, had also made a perfect plan for the offensive and asked the king for a formal declaration of war.

If Downing had not begun to impose an embargo on Prussia, Wilhelm I would have hesitated, and now he has decided to put an end to the arrogance of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and will formally declare war on Luxembourg.

Finally, the two sides officially entered a state of war. The debate in the British Parliament also came to an end, and the results of the vote were in, the supreme executive power of India was returned to the East India Company, and Queen Victoria would ascend the throne as Emperor of India, continuing the glory of the British Empire.

This is just a face-saving job, in fact, India's general is in the hands of the Grand Duke of Windsor, and everyone understands this. Rothschild and the Scottish Bankers Group retained a small symbolic stake in the East India Company, and the 270 million sub-continental army of India had fallen into the hands of the Grand Duke. How expensive is this deal that could wipe anyone out? There is one figure that illustrates the problem - the East India Company has borrowed as much as £50 million from the British government! Of course, this money has to be repaid slowly, and India's taxes are simply unsustainable even for annual spending, do you think who would buy India if it wasn't for the nerves? Even if you buy it, there is still a possibility of bankruptcy, and the British government may still take over the supreme power from the Grand Duke in the future, depending on whether you can manage this most dazzling jewel in the crown of the British Empire.

The Great Eastern quietly carried 40,000 FN-1855 rifles and 40,000 training guns, millions of bullets and training bullets to Calcutta, the capital of India, even if the Grand Duke of Luxembourg lost in this "Great Patriotic War", it will soon come back, this time, it will be the East India Company army equipped with advanced rifles, mainly British.

The current Viceroy of India, Canning, was okay in the counterinsurgency, and Downing asked him if he intended to remain in office, and after receiving a positive answer, the Viceroy of India was instructed to declare war on Prussia on behalf of India three days after the short parliamentary vote. At least 40,000 British troops and 100,000 Indian native soldiers still loyal to the East India Company became the new force of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

The Governor of the Straits Settlements declared a state of war against Prussia, which was to recruit at least 2,500 Hessian hunters and 300 Chinese mercenaries who were already quite good to join the war group, and began to recruit local British, Chinese, Malays, and Indians to train more troops.

The Grand Duke was too good to Japan, and it was disaster relief and reconstruction of Edo and help to buy Alaska, and it was too uninteresting for the shogunate to say nothing, and Japan, a large island country with the world's highest literacy rate of 20 million people, joined the alliance of the Grand Duke and declared war on Prussia under the leadership of Naobu Ii. Europeans also thought that the Japanese army was as strong as the Satsuma regiment that wiped out the rebellious Hessian mercenary group in an instant, which caused great psychological pressure on the Prussians. In short, the good diplomatic posture of the Kingdom of Prussia after the Crimean War was now in tatters, and Bismarck, who had tried to persuade the king to no avail, resigned from the post of ambassador to Frankfurt and became an idle member of society.

Now that the Grand Duke of Luxembourg was finally a decent adversary, Prussia exerted diplomatic pressure on Belgium to not allow any forces associated with the Grand Duke of Luxembourg to enter Luxembourg through Belgium. The current Belgian Prime Minister Decker's rise to power had a lot to do with Downing's support, and Downing had a strong relationship with Belgium, which declared "neutrality" but allowed the Grand Duke's army to be deployed through the designated channels, which was tantamount to favoring the foreign policy of the Grand Duke. If it was just Luxembourg and Prussia going to war, Belgium would not dare to be so partial, the problem was that the East India Company had a strong navy, and no one could afford to offend it.

In view of Belgium's familiarity, Downing's new rifle was opened to non-Chinese armies for the first time, allowing Belgium to strengthen its defense forces. For the first time, the Belgian military saw the rifles produced by the "Belgian state-owned Herstal Arsenal", which was quite interesting. Belgium is at odds with the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and its neutrality is more uncomfortable for Prussia than a direct declaration of war, do you want to pressure Belgium to join the Grand Duke's coalition again?

As for the attitude of the Netherlands, another neighboring country...... Anyway, Downing had already declared war on Prussia on behalf of the Dutch East India Company, which had the Dutch king and a large number of Dutch shares.

Now, the Grand Duke's side has the Six-Power Alliance of India, Malaya, Japan, Belgium, and the Netherlands, and the British Empire, which is unlikely to see the East India Company being crippled like this, may lend a helping hand, and the Grand Duke's request is only for the Prussian army to leave the territory of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, what a just reason, can Prussia really fight this war?

In addition to the king himself, more and more ministers do not want to go to war, and now that there is no big fight between the two sides, let's withdraw quickly, we have no losses, and it is not worth fighting this battle.

It seems that it can't be fought, Moltke's chief of staff is putting an FN-1855 obtained by a Prussian military spy on the case, he studied it for a long time, shot a few shots, and felt that this thing was so terrifying, and built a letter to the king, or don't fight, the weapons of the Grand Duke's army may be more advanced than imagined, and it will take a while to fight, and now do it, although the victory may be a disastrous victory.

The chief of the general staff's remark "Don't fight yet" was the last straw that suppressed the fighting spirit of the king of the country, and the military aristocracy was unwilling to fight, and the king could not afford to cook without rice, so he had to withdraw his troops and find diplomats to make peace.

The peace talks went smoothly, the two sides declared an armistice at the same time, and it was easy to stop before the war really began, and the Prussian army quickly withdrew from Luxembourg, and the Grand Duke finally achieved the goal of surrendering the army without a fight. The people of Luxembourg celebrated that they had finally stopped fleeing and that the population had returned. After this episode, the ruling authority of the Grand Duke in Luxembourg has also been established, look, our Grand Duke can scare the Prussian army away, who dares to disagree?

The most lost is the Grand Duchy of Hesse, more than a thousand mercenaries were killed in vain, because the rebellion was suppressed, there is no place to reason, military law is like a mountain, the euthanasia invented by the Grand Duke is already very humane, and there is a certain pension. Because the Grand Dukes of Hesse have openly broken with the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg, next year's mercenary contract must have been blown up, and the Grand Duchy of Hesse has lost a deal. If it weren't for the fact that the generals Reuters and Liebig were both Hesseians, maybe Hesse would have been subject to economic sanctions. Sanctions against backward countries in high-tech countries are the easiest, you don't have my products, and your products can find alternatives all over the world.

The Kingdom of Prussia was back on track, but their king was very lost, not in general, and the overwhelming reports of the victory of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg without a fight made him repulsed day and night, and on a dark and windy night, the unfortunate news came from the palace that the king was insane!

The dignified Prussian king was driven crazy by the Grand Duke of Luxembourg's "slight trick", and this legend immediately spread all over the rivers and lakes. Ironically, His Majesty had no hope of being cured, and was sent to the Windsor Hospital in Berlin, where the Grand Duke's newly invented sedative medicine, benzodiazepines, was there. This is a class of drugs with sedative, hypnotic and anxiolytic properties, as well as anticonvulsant, anti-tremor and central muscle relaxant effects. The central neurotransmitter aminobutyric acid interacts with such drugs and benzodiazepine receptors (located in nerve cell membranes) to produce presynaptic and postsynaptic inhibition mainly in various parts of the central nervous system. Benzodiazepine receptor is a functional supramolecular functional unit, which is a component of the chloride ion complex of benzodiazepine-aminobutyric acid receptor, which mainly plays the valve function of chlorine channels and regulates cell discharge, benzodiazepines can increase the frequency of chlorine channel opening, cause hyperpolarization of presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons, inhibit neuronal firing, and reduce neuronal excitability.

Such high-tech drugs could only alleviate the condition of Wilhelm IV, and the king was really insane, and his younger brother, Prince Wilhelm, was embraced as the king of the government, and actually held the power of Prussia, called Wilhelm I.

As soon as Wilhelm I came to power, he summoned Bismarck, who had already returned to his homeland, and gave him the post of ambassador to England and Luxembourg, so that he could reconcile the relations between Prussia and the Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

When Bismarck heard the news of his old friend's coming to power, he was instantly rejuvenated and could finally carry out his ambition to unify Germany. In order to create a good international environment, Bismarck's first task was to send an envoy to London to rebuild friendship between the two countries with his old friend the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Dialogue between smart people was much more convenient, and when Downing gave up his support for Hugo's republicans in order to get Luxemburg to ease relations with France in the first place, Bismarck saw the eloquence of Lord Windsor, and he must not have disappointed him.

Bismarck came to the Si Tuo Garden, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Downing and two Japanese people discussing what plan was around the table, and beckoned to him: "Ah, Otto is here!" Come and take a look, there are several earthquake resistant wooden house designs here, let's refer to which one is better, Otto has the most vision! ”

At this time, Bismarck was only ten years older than Downing, and he was in his prime.

There are masterpieces by wooden house designers from Japan, Sweden, Canada and the United States, and the improved telegraph has been able to fax relatively large graphics in the world's most important cities, so designers from all over the world can improve the design of wooden houses.

Bismarck glanced at the drawings and was fluent in English, French, Russian, Polish, and Dutch, and said in English without any obstacles: "Didn't Edo suffer heavy casualties because of the fire after the earthquake?" Why do you still use wooden houses as a solution? ”

As a master of strategy, he didn't look at the beautiful wooden house design plan, and he thought of the key points at a glance.

Tang Ning: "Japan has no resources, that is, there are more forests, considering the cost, construction speed and other factors, in the end, I still think that it is cost-effective for civilians to build wooden houses, and fires can be avoided in the following ways: 1. Popularize electricity and do not use open flames; 2. Use a fire-resistant isolation layer to wrap key fire prevention areas such as kitchens; 3. Tap water is connected to every household to facilitate fire extinguishing; Fourth, use roads and large concrete buildings as fire isolation belts to prevent the spread of fire.

In our test, the wooden house is more earthquake-resistant than ordinary reinforced concrete, not to mention the brick structure, because the wood is elastic and can last a long time in seismic waves, and even if it collapses, the danger is much smaller than that of heavy bricks and concrete. It is conducive to disaster relief and reconstruction. Now that Edo has been burned down by a fire, it is easier to clean, but if it is masonry, it will be difficult to clean. ”

Bismarck nodded as he listened, he didn't know much about technical things, Downing believed whatever he said, he guessed it was right, he focused his attention on the complexity of the design scheme, these designs seemed to be very beautiful, that is, quite difficult to assemble, is this suitable for the victims?

Downing said triumphantly: "Suitable! Complexity is not a problem, because we will build a large factory to build a house, assemble it on a long assembly line and then ship it to the real location of the house, and each worker only needs to learn very little to master the assembly technology in his own job, so that the wooden house produced is also very cheap, and the speed is not enough. Of course, for the penniless victims still have to use the simplest solution, the bottom one, the Swedish designer's sloping roof structure, minimalist, very intuitive, mainly a little ugly, I don't like it at all, the houses I saw in Edo are all okay, I guess the Edo people don't like it either. ”

The most interesting design is the wooden house with mortise and tenon by a Japanese designer. Mortise and tenon construction is a traditional woodworking technique that can be used to connect wooden parts without nails, and is a craft that can be used in China and neighboring countries under Chinese influence, among which Japanese carpenters who have no iron resources are particularly fond of and are particularly good at making mortise and tenon furniture and construction.

The mortise and tenon process requires a high size of the joint between the protruding tenon and the recessed part, but this is not a problem for advanced machine tool factories, and the Swiss precision instrument company has begun to develop a variety of carpenter machine tools for the supply of wooden house manufacturers.

Downing's love for mortise and tenon architecture lies in the fact that it is so pure and clean, so ingenious when it comes, and so not a cloud when it is demolished. Wood that has evolved its own insect and antiseptic ability is used to build it, and even paint is omitted. Of course, Downing is not all about pure naturalness, as mentioned earlier, the fibers of natural wood are only strong in the vertical direction, and the seismic strength of plywood stacked vertically is undoubtedly better, and this makes it possible to use a large amount of small-diameter wood, and roll their bark down to form large boards. The use of adhesives can even integrate the residue left over from the processing and turn it into a filler for furniture without wasting at all. Such man-made panels are lighter and stronger, so they are more convenient, and they are better than hard-core and expensive solid wood furniture.

Another natural enemy is termites, which are probably the biggest danger of traditional wooden buildings, and the revolutionary improvement is that the soil around the wooden buildings is treated with termite-killing chemicals, which can prevent termites forever.

Even termites have solutions, Bismarck only nods, there is nothing to build. Next, Downing's casually mentioned house sales strategy made Bismarck feel that there was absolutely no good fruit to eat if he went against the Grand Duke. The plan was to provide consumer credit to the destitute residents who lost their financial capacity during the Great Edo Earthquake, so that their families could afford to buy cheap wooden houses, and the beneficiaries themselves had to take a boat to Alaska to colonize, prospect, and mine in the midst of the gloom! The Grand Duke is benevolent, administrative, and makes money without delay, and it is impeccable. (http：／/.）。 It was at this moment that Bismarck secretly decided that in this world, no one should recruit the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, it was terrible.

The glamorous and touching Grand Duchess brought Indian Assam tea to the guests, which alleviated Bismarck's shock.

Downing asked everyone, "How does it taste?" ”

The two Japanese guests here were Saigo Takamori, the commander of the Satsuma mercenaries who had come to London to prosecute the Grand Duke, and Manjiro Nakahama, the interpreter. They were accustomed to drinking Far Eastern-style tea, but they didn't expect that there was sugar in Assam black tea, and they all said "not good".

Tang Ning also didn't understand: "I'm going to ban the cultivation of opium in India, so I have to find alternative agriculture on a large scale, fortunately, black tea grows well in India, Europeans like to put sugar, it's really tasteless, I tried many times and I was not used to it, and after drinking it, there was a taste in my mouth, which was far less than the fragrance and elegance of pure tea......"

The post-war negotiations between the two countries made Bismarck hardly find the slightest sense of the Archduke of Windsor taking the war to heart, and gave the iron-blooded strategist a strong impression that the Archduke had not changed at all, and was still just an industrialist who only cared about grain and vegetables.

Bismarck suddenly thought of a very strict question, Luxemburg was a member of the German Confederation, and if Prussia wanted to unify Germany, what was the attitude of this grand duke with such a powerful prestige? Will Luxembourg be allowed to be incorporated into the German Empire? Does it mean that there will always be a war between Prussia and Luxembourg? It was thought that Luxembourg, a small place, could not affect the reunification of Germany at all, but now it seems that this is a big problem.